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There was an article posted to HN a while back regarding creating a wireless ISP over a very small area, and If I recall correctly, someone pointed out that ren
by non-entity 7y ago
There was an article posted to HN a while back regarding creating a wireless ISP over a very small area, and If I recall correctly, someone pointed out that renting a piece the infrastructure required for it would be tens of thousands of dollars monthly
- loufe 7y agoMy parents use internet beamed off a nearby farm silo. The owner of the project bought the trasmission info, paid for a splice in the fiber line on the road by the farmer's house and badabing-badaboom. Not necessarily tens of thousands per month and he has several dozen customers.
- riskneutral 7y agoWhat is transmission info?
- HeWhoLurksLate 7y agoI think that might have been an autocorrected "infra" as in infrastructure. Not GP, though.
- loufe 7y agoRight, I did mean infra - thank you!
- plussed_reader 7y agoI think this may be a mis-stated reference to buying transit for the network provided.
- waffle_ss 7y agoIn most cases fiber running past a rural farm is long-haul fiber that you aren't going to able to lease to a nearby colocation point for buying transit. If you do get lucky though and it can be leased, you'll probably still have to pay to bury new fiber from the nearest vault or handhole because they aren't going to dig up the conduit and cut it open just for one guy buying a pair of fibers. That could be over a mile away. The good news is plowing/trenching fiber in a rural area is cheaper than urban/suburban. Anyway would be interested in more details from that project owner, sounds interesting.